Why is the potential discovery of tryptophan in an asteroid sample such a big deal for #astrobiology?
Gonna do a deep dive behind the headlines.
For starters, here is a link to the discovery article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512461122
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Part 2: Tryptophan discovery: How do we know what we know?
As promised, we gonna circle back on that tryptophan discovery.
(For Part 1 in this series see here: https://deepspace.social/@mike_malaska/115653001232082594)
And this gets to an even bigger question in #astrobiology (and life in general):
“How do you know what you know?”
We gonna dive deep into the analytical chemistry of that reported tryptophan detection, digging into the supplementary information analysis.
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